Motivational Quotes

Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

- Mcgoorty, Danny

Best Quotes about Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.